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Redundancy: can employers favour women on maternity leave over men?
Scoring employees against redundancy selection criteria is tricky at the best of times, and as Personnel Today recently reported , even leading employment law firms can get into trouble.
Happy Mother’s Day - or not?
When I polled HR professionals from large organisations in February, 41% of them said they believe that women have difficulty reintegrating into the workplace after maternity leave. This is in line with a 2008 NCT survey which found that one in three
Happy Mother’s Day - possibly not?
When I polled HR professionals from large organisations in February, 41% of them said they believe that women have difficulty reintegrating into the workplace after maternity leave. This is in line with a 2008 NCT survey which found that one in three
Pregnancy and maternity leave: common discrimination pitfalls
XpertHR's new series of detailed summaries of employment tribunal decisions has continued with a look at five tribunal claims for pregnancy and maternity leave discrimination [subscription required].
Redundancy: what to do if you have to dismiss an employee on maternity leave
There is nothing to prevent an employer from dismissing an employee on maternity leave whose job has become redundant.
Top 10 HR questions - December 2009
Questions on medical evidence required for employees with swine flu, annual leave for employees on maternity leave and a number of questions on working time feature in December's top ten most frequently visited FAQs on XpertHR. The closest we get
Surrogate mothers and maternity leave and pay
Campaigners are calling for a change in the law giving women who use a surrogate mother to have a baby for them rights to matenity leave and pay, according to London Today .
Kid-free women should get maternity 'break' (Guru)
Childless women should be allowed to take maternity leave, allowing them time off from the workplace. But before you all shout at Guru, it's not his idea, but the latest ridiculous employment law proposal to emerge. But of course it...
Model letters on contact during maternity leave
It has always been good practice to keep in contact with employees on maternity leave, even when the law was silent on this point. The law was changed in April 2007 to allow employers to make "reasonable contact" with employees on maternity
How to deal with pregnancy and maternity and fixed-term contracts - XpertHR's Employment Intelligence blog - HR Space
" ny new minimum wage for apprentices must be set at a cautious level ," according to the CBI (external website).
